Mitt Romney’s Top Ten List

Published April 17, 2008 4:00am ET



Mitt Romney surprised the audience at last night’s Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner and delivered a “Top Ten” list of things that helped sink his presidential campaign.

10. There weren’tas many Osmonds as I thought.

9. I got tired of corkscrew landings under sniper fire.

8. As a lifelong hunter, I didn’t want to miss the start of the varmint season.

7. There wasn’t room for two Christian leaders.

6. I was upset that no one had bothered to search my passport files.

5. I needed an excuse to get fat, grow a beard and win the Nobel prize.

4. I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.

3. I wanted to finally take off that dark suit and tie, and kick back in a light-colored suit and tie.

2. Once my wife Ann realized I couldn’t win, my fundraising dried up.

1. There was a miscalculation in our theory:  “As Utah goes, so goes the nation.”